Simulating X-ray spectroscopies and calculating core-excited states of molecules

P Norman, A Dreuw - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
During the past decade, the research field of computational X-ray spectroscopy has
witnessed an advancement triggered by the development of advanced synchrotron light …

Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes

U Bergmann, J Kern, RW Schoenlein, P Wernet… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The metal centres in metalloenzymes and molecular catalysts are responsible for the
rearrangement of atoms and electrons during complex chemical reactions, and they enable …

Dynamics of resonant x-ray and Auger scattering

F Gel'mukhanov, M Odelius, SP Polyutov… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
An overview of both experimental and theoretical results in the field of resonant scattering of
tunable soft and hard x-ray radiation is presented, with a main focus on the closely related …

K-and L-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) determination of differential orbital covalency (DOC) of transition …

ML Baker, MW Mara, JJ Yan, KO Hodgson… - Coordination chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Continual advancements in the development of synchrotron radiation sources have resulted
in X-ray based spectroscopic techniques capable of probing the electronic and structural …

Reduction of electron repulsion in highly covalent Fe-amido complexes counteracts the impact of a weak ligand field on excited-state ordering

CB Larsen, JD Braun, IB Lozada… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The ability to access panchromatic absorption and long-lived charge-transfer (CT) excited
states is critical to the pursuit of abundant-metal molecular photosensitizers. Fe (II) …

XABOOM: An x-ray absorption benchmark of organic molecules based on carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen 1s→ π* transitions

T Fransson, IE Brumboiu, ML Vidal… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The performance of several standard and popular approaches for calculating X-ray
absorption spectra at the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen K-edges of 40 primarily organic …

Ferricyanide photo-aquation pathway revealed by combined femtosecond Kβ main line and valence-to-core x-ray emission spectroscopy

M Reinhard, A Gallo, M Guo, AT Garcia-Esparza… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reliably identifying short-lived chemical reaction intermediates is crucial to elucidate
reaction mechanisms but becomes particularly challenging when multiple transient species …

Probing the oxidation state of transition metal complexes: a case study on how charge and spin densities determine Mn L-edge X-ray absorption energies

M Kubin, M Guo, T Kroll, H Löchel, E Källman… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metals in inorganic systems and metalloproteins can occur in different oxidation
states, which makes them ideal redox-active catalysts. To gain a mechanistic understanding …

High-Spin State of a Ferrocene Electron Donor Revealed by Optical and X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

JH Burke, DY Bae, RF Wallick, CP Dykstra… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ferrocene is one of the most common electron donors, and mapping its ligand-field excited
states is critical to designing donor–acceptor (D–A) molecules with long-lived charge …

Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Fe (II) Complexes Designed for Solar‐Energy Conversion: Current Status and Open Questions

C Cebrián, M Pastore, A Monari, X Assfeld… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One major challenge of future sustainable photochemistry is to replace precious and rare
transition metals in applications such as energy conversion or electroluminescence by earth …